You know how everyone takes the before and after pictures? When they redo a room, loose weight, revamp some clothing-well I thought maybe I should do that with my garden. It would be "Where is it?" to "Voila!" The weeds have gotten the best of me and my life has been so full lately, I haven't been out there as much as I should. I did find the potatoes and onions. I'm working on the herb plants, but if I don't get to the corn and swiss chard soon, I may never see them again. I'm afraid to have the kids do too much, because it's so hard to find the plants.
Anyways....wild strawberries are done. I like to pick enough for at least one batch of jam. My tame ones are starting to get done, also.
We went to Duluth yesterday, our daughter has a heart murmur that requires a checkup every year. Thank the Lord, it isn't any worse and we're done until next year. Today, we're going back to Duluth, to take my brother to the airport. He flies home to Floriday today. It's so nice to have him here. My whole family is trying to talk him into moving back up here, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Question---Those of you with young critters, have you ever dealt with scours and how did you treat it? We have three calves that could use some help. We gave them plenty of electrolytes, but they still aren't well.
I hear the garden calling. God has given us a near perfect day and I'd best use it.
2 comments:
We have dealt with scours with our calves. We used a solution that we found on the internet. It worked for us. I copied a paragraph from that website below.
Several excellent commercial oral electrolyte fluids are available for treating calf scours. Consult with the herd veterinarian for a recommendation on the most effective ones. As an alternative, a recipe for homemade calf scours oral fluid is:
1 can beef consume soup
1 package of jelly pectin (Sure Gel)
2 teaspoons Lite Salt
2 teaspoons baking soda (Arm and Hammer)
Add warm water to make a 2-quart total.
I hope this works for you. I believe we just used bouillon instead of the consume. I know we are watching our calf right now. So far he looks great.
We've tried several baking soda solutions and that helped, but didn't stop the diarrhea in our sheep... so I kept looking and finally found someplace that said to give them pepto bismal. And with our sheep it worked... stopped the messies very quickly some needed two doses, but most didn't. I would check to be sure a cow can metabolize whatever is in pepto bismal before giving it... but it might be worth trying if nothing else is working.
Melissa
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